Black Money includes exclusive interviews with current and
former prosecutors involved in the cases against BAE Systems, as well as
with Prince Bandar's legal representative on this matter, former FBI Director Louis Freeh.Parallel to the documentary, FRONTLINE and its international newsmagazine FRONTLINE/World have launched The Business of Bribes, an unfolding online investigation. The site offers breaking news stories, as well as in-depth interviews with middlemen, prosecutors, whistleblowers and former presidents, detailing the stories behind some of the largest bribery investigations in corporate history.
This documentary and the Web site have been reported and produced in partnership with the Logan Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Additional reporting for both the documentary and the Web site was provided by the nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica
Leigh knows. In his groundbreaking reporting for The Guardian newspaper, he helped uncover one of the biggest and most complicated cases currently under investigation -- a story involving a British aerospace giant, the Saudi royal family, and an $80 billion international arms deal known as Al Yamamah, or "The Dove" in Arabic. "If there was one person who was the main man behind this arms deal, it turned out it was the U.S. ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan," says Leigh.
It all started back in 1985, when the charismatic Prince Bandar was put in charge of acquiring new fighter jets for the Saudi Arabian air force. The Israeli lobby in Congress reportedly stood in the way of the United States making a deal with the Saudis, so President Ronald Reagan sent Bandar to the British. The prince approached a willing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and they sealed the massive deal between the United Kingdom, BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace) and the Royal Saudi Air Force.
In 2010 Prince sold Blackwater, which is now known as Academi, for an estimated $200 million. Prince retains control of numerous companies affiliated with Academi, but he told me that he had "ceased providing any services" to the U.S. government.
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2013-03-15 19:43Hardly incredible.The elites routinely order murders, genocide and other crimes against humanity when it is to their profit or in their interest [which their kept media deliberately conflates with the so-called "national interest"] to do so.
While harming the American military, the sequestration cuts will also
impact Israel and its military budget at a time of increased threats
from Iran, Syria and other players in the Middle East. Proverbs 27:23
warns individuals – and by extension nations –to pay attention to the
condition of their flocks and herds. Inattention and years of reckless
spending is now catching up to the United States and many other world
nations, and that may soon have a huge impact on the security of Israel
and the U.S. To read the original Haaretz story, click here. http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/sequestration-cuts-to-affect-israel/
It's been close to thirty years since Canadian investigative journalist Peter Dale Scott wrote "Deep Politics," exposing the growing criminalization and routine parapolitical operations of the U.S. government. The empty shell of "democracy" merely serves as camouflage for an entirely unaccountable elite polity that, as the conservative British financial journal The Economist put it, is "insulated from [electoral] policies" -- in other words, immune to the results of elections in which both parties are either bought or rented, and the presstitute media serves as a faithful stenographer to amplify whatever the powers that be want spread around.
Nor should one take seriously Prince's claim to be acting out of patriotism, which as another poster noted, is the "last refuge of scoundrels."
The fact that Prince "vas only carryink out orterrs," which included war crimes, torture, terrorism, wetwork [death squad executions of civilians in order to terrorize the occupied population into submission], etc., would not, if the U.S.'s leaders had been put in the dock, save him from hanging.